Robert H. Hatton

Robert Hopkins Hatton (2 November 1826-31 May 1862) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th congressional district from 4 March 1859 to 3 March 1861, succeeding Charles Ready and preceding William B. Campbell.

Biography
Robert Hopkins Hatton was born in Steubenville, Ohio in 1826, but his family moved to Tennessee while he was young. Hatton passed the bar exam in 1850 and was elected to the state legislature in 1855 as a US Whig Party member, running for governor in 1857. Hatton later joined the Constitutional Union Party, and he opposed secession; however, he formed the Lebanon Blues after Abraham Lincoln called for the recruitment of 75,000 volunteers to crush the Confederate States of America at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He commanded the 7th Tennessee Regiment of the Confederate States Army in the Army of Northern Virginia, and he was shot in the head and killed at the Battle of Fair Oaks on 31 May 1862.